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Furkan Berk Kiran
Furkan is a Turkish Islamic masculine given name, which means "criterion, proof, evidence, affirmation, testament". ''Furkan'' is also the name of a Qur'anic chapter Al-Furqan. People with the name include: * Furkan Akar (born 2002), Turkish short track speed skater *Furkan Aldemir (born 1991), Turkish basketball player with Galatasara *Furkan Andıç (born 1990), Turkish actor and model * Furkan Asena Aydın (born 1992), Turkish female taekwondo practitioner (middleweight division) *Furkan Aydın (born 1991), Turkish footballer *Furkan Doğan (1991–2010), Turkish-American student killed in the Gaza flotilla raid * Furkan Korkmaz (born 1997), Turkish basketball player for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers *Furkan Oruç (born 1996), Turkish archer *Furkan Özçal (born 1990), in a Turkish footballer *Furkan Ulaş Memiş (born 1991), Turkish amateur boxer who competed at the 2008 Olympics at flyweight *Furkan Yalçınkaya (born 1986), Turkish volleyball player See also * Al-Furqan (A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested the European Union to add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state. Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet. The distinctive characteristics of the Turk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
